Mineralogy and Petrology

• Introduction to crystallography and crystal chemistry
• Physical and chemical properties of minerals in hand specimens
• Identification of minerals and rocks with the petrographic microscope
• Field and laboratory classification of igneous and metamorphic rocks
• The nature of magmas and processes of magmatic differentiation
• Metamorphic facies concepts
• Interpretation of mineral assemblages of igneous and metamorphic rocks in the light of the phase rule and phase relations of relevant mineral assemblages
• Textural and physical properties of rocks relevant to engineering problems

Suggested Reading Materials

Petrology, The study of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, 2nd Edition
Raymond, L.A. McGraw Hill, 2002.

Minerals in Thin Section, 2nd Edition
Perkins, D. and K. Henke. Prentice Hall, 2004.

A Color Atlas Of Rocks And Minerals In Thin Section
MacKenzie, W.S. and A.E. Adams. J. Wiley, 1994.

Introduction to Optical Mineralogy
Nesse, William D. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Petrography of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks
Philpotts, Anthony R. Prentice Hall, 2003.

The Manual of Mineral Science. 22nd Edition
Klein, C. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2002.

Petrology: Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic. 2nd Edition
Blatt, H. and R.J. Tracy. W.H. Freeman and Co., 1996.